Working smarter and greener: Collaborative knowledge sharing in virtual global project teams

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Highlights:

• Competence-based trust ties are essential for knowledge sharing of high-quality knowledge in virtual project teams.

• We can develop trust and social interaction online without offline face-to-face meetings.

• We can establish and share actionable, contextual and intrinsic knowledge online.

• We can reduce traveling with 50–70% in virtual project teams using social, technological platforms for knowledge sharing.

• Managers and employees are more satisfied and deliver better solutions when they are working smarter and greener online.

摘要

•Competence-based trust ties are essential for knowledge sharing of high-quality knowledge in virtual project teams.•We can develop trust and social interaction online without offline face-to-face meetings.•We can establish and share actionable, contextual and intrinsic knowledge online.•We can reduce traveling with 50–70% in virtual project teams using social, technological platforms for knowledge sharing.•Managers and employees are more satisfied and deliver better solutions when they are working smarter and greener online.

论文关键词:Greener solutions,Global projects,Knowledge sharing,Virtual teams,Virtual collaboration

论文评审过程:Received 25 August 2016, Accepted 15 October 2016, Available online 31 October 2016, Version of Record 31 October 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.10.002